QUIVIDI and ICON Multimedia come to a Strategic Worldwide Collaboration Agreement

(MADRID, 10/30/2014) The French Company Quividi and the Spanish ICON Multimedia have come to an agreement that will allow ICON Multimedia to commercialize the French Audience Measurement Solution in Spain.

Quividi is considered the leader in the Audience Measurement market and has developed an extraordinary solution to test the DOOH (Digital Out of Home) communication impact, using a simple video sensor that counts the number of current spectators (real ones) and also the “Opportunities To See” (potential ones). At the same time, the video shows precisely the exposure and attention times while estimating the gender and age distribution of the content viewers. Not only that, but this technology can even be used to measure the crossing frequency in order to know the attendance of particular places.

In addition, ICON Multimedia is the developer of DENEVA Digital Communication Integral Solution, which is considered one of the leader platforms in this market. DENEVA is able to publish multimedia content on monitors, PA systems, and other type of channels distributed all over the world and with the maximum level of control.

According to this agreement ICON Multimedia preferentially adds Quividi to its Audience measurement solutions in order to satisfy all the different needs detected in this sector. This will benefit DENEVA clients on both national and international levels. This is possible thanks to the superb integration with Quividi. The integration allows for the direct extraction of reports from the platform with customized content displays depending on the target and measurement of the in-store traffic. In addition, ICON Multimedia and Quividi are cooperating to create different bundles or promo kits that provide access to the best technology possible, with a competitive price.

Alberto Herrero Mañanes, Europe Business Manager of ICON Multimedia and Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Operation Chief of Quividi have discussed their mutual decision to take this important step due to the strong presence this Spanish company has in DS Hispanic market, and the exponential growth of Quividi on five different continents.

Alberto Herrero proclaimed:

The strategic alliance of ICON Multimedia let us align our interests with a Digital Signage Market leader and guarantees us the access to better and more versatile technology of Audience Measurement.

On his side, Mr. Nguyen-Phuc explained:

An alliance with ICON Multimedia is key to us since DENEVA is one of the most interesting and powerful Digital Signage Solutions of the market.

Corporate information:

ICON Multimedia S.L., based in Palencia, is a 21-year-old software company, with more than 15 years of experience in the Digital Signage sector. ICON Multimedia has a really young and experienced workforce, formed by 30 full-time employees. It is a strong starring at the Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) market, with its solution DENEVA, specially at high-availability environments, like High Speed Railway Stations, Airports, or Visual Marketing solutions, among others.

About Quividi:

Quividi provides a real-time video analytics solution that helps media owners, retailers, and brands finely count and qualify their audiences. Using the latest face and body detection technique and standard webcams, the Quividi solution delivers exhaustive metrics on viewers, opportunities to see, attention time, and demographics in a completely anonymous fashion and without ever recording any image or personal data.

Located in both California and France, Quividi pioneered the anonymous face detection category in 2006 and is the world leader in Digital Out Of Home audience measurement, with customers in over 46 countries and more than 3 billion faces analyzed.

For more information please see Quividi’s website at www.quividi.com or email press@quividi.com.

Virtual Visits carried out with DENEVA in the new EFIDES Center

ICON Multimedia based in Palencia sets its solution DENEVA.cuatro for communication and interactivity in the new EFIDES Center.

(PALENCIA 10/22/2014).- ICON Multimedia and its Integral Communication System called DENEVA.cuatro has been selected by the City Council of Palencia to be the one who provides to this new multi-use Center with the latest interactive digital signage technology for the European Urban Plan.

The EFIDES Center in Palencia, recently opened, is a multi-purpose project to achieve digital literacy for citizens and SMEs of Palencia, who are especially concerned about unemployed people and their need for training in this subject, strengthen of user’s technological skills and abilities. This training makes possible job-placement, job-creation and is an economical engine in Palencia.

ICON Multimedia´s Project lets users control in an interactive way a total of 3 PTZ automatic cutting-edge cameras from AXIS brand. These cameras are remotely managed from a 55´´ screen located at the building´s hall and using Microsoft Kinect technology. They are placed in three different places of the center; used for automotive training in collaboration with Renault Spain, and also for Cookery and Environmental training.

User is placed facing the screen and this way and using only gestures he is able to select the camera of the room he wants to visit in that moment. You can also zoom-in and out and move the camera with gestures. All this enables anyone to make virtual visits across the different training areas of the Center.

Furthermore DENEVA player makes full use of Kinect when talking about shape analysis, and has exclusively developed for this project a screen that shows a virtual fish tank where 3D fishes swim freely. As soon as somebody is detected standing in front of it, they are linked to that person and fishes follow his movement.

Additionally the EFIDES Center benefits from the rest of DENEVA features in traditional Digital Signage, creating their own internal content channel and also another channel based on social media such as Facebook, Twitter whose target audience are students, teachers and visitors in general. This content is shown when there are no users interacting with the system.

This new DENEVA.cuatro feature that is being officially launched is currently being analyzed and evaluated by several clients, especially in retail sector because they are always looking for different ways to make users interact with Media Contents, it opens up a new world of communication possibilities.

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CORPORATIVE INFORMATION

ICON Multimedia S.L. is located in Palencia (Spain), it is more than 21 years old and it has more than 15 years of experience in Digital Signage sector. At this moment there are 30 young professionals working at ICON Multimedia. It has a strong presence in Public Integral Communication Solutions with its product DENEVA, especially in high availability environments such as High Speed Railway Lines, Airports and Visual Marketing Solutions among others.

For further information, please contact:

Rafael Hornos / ICON Multimedia / Tel. 970 70 29 06 / rhornos@iconmm.com

ICON Multimedia will officially present its DS + PA Solution DENEVA during Matelec 2014

ICON Multimedia, by the hand of its partner UDE, will officially present its integral Digital Signage and Multichannel Public-Adress Solution called DENEVA during the Matelec 2014 Trade Fair.

Matelec, International Trade Fair for the Electrical and Electronics Industry is a reference fair and an unmissable event for the sector members. It will take place between 28^th and 30^th October in IFEMA, Madrid.

At Stand number 2C10 in Pavillion 2, UDE and ICON Multimedia will show to all the professionals and general interested public the enormous communication possibilities that DENEVA and its full integration with the whole range of Audio products of UDE have. All this makes this solution one of the most powerful and versatile on the market.

IBERMUTUAMUR Recognizes the effort made by companies in Castilla y León for improving the prevention and reduction in the number of work accidents

Ibermutuamur has awarded 302 companies of Castilla y León in recognition of their efforts to improve the occupational risk prevention and reduction in the number of work accidents.

This effort has made these companies register the most favorable accident rates of all the Autonomous Community in each particular sector, and some of them have also been motivated in the last few years with the Tax Reduction System for Professional Eventualities called Bonus.

At a national level, the 2011 Bonus Incentive Program has recognized the work of a total of 496 companies for improving the prevention and reduction of work accidents. Specifically, in Castilla y León 127 companies have obtained the 2011 incentive Bonus, which has reached a total amount of 522,740.42 euros in this region.

In previous campaigns, the 2009 Bonus in Castilla y Leon recognized the work of 152 companies and amounted to 484.581,45 euros, while the 2010 Bonus was given to 171 companies and amounted to 727,758.63 euros.

The recognition act, which took place in Valladolid, has count on the participation of the Finance Minister of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, María del Pilar del Olmo Moro, the deputy Representative of the Government in Valladolid, José Antonio Martínez Bermejo, the deputy General Director of Ibermutuamur Luis Cisnal, and the Regional Director of Ibermutuamur in Castilla y León, Rafael Tortuero.

ICON Multimedia presents DENEVA.cuatro solution for the Digital Signage OPS player developed by NEC Display Solutions

Madrid (09/16/2014) – NEC Display Solutions Ibérica, leading manufacturer of projectors, monitors and large displays, has presented his partner ICON Multimedia solution called DENEVA.cuatro, for its Digital Signage OPS player.

This multifunction device is aimed at customers that look for complete and secure solutions for Digital Signage. It is capable of playing HD content in 1080p thanks to its quad-core processor ARM® Cortex®-A7 and its integrated eight-core graphics processor. It is also possible to add storage through an SD card or USB memory – up to 128GB – and connectivity can be wired or wireless.

DENEVA.cuatro is ICON Multimedia´s CMS. This solution has been developed in order to take full advantage of the capabilities of Digital Signage OPS Player of NEC. This platform provides a latest generation multimedia experience that combines high-resolution video and sequences of images in a variety of formats. It also makes possible to carry out complex compositions of layers that can merge multiple resources freely.

This solution allows you to share updates from social networks because it is integrated with Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr and Twitter, it also generates easily and immediately QR codes. In addition, it lets you watch videos in streaming, customize corporate channels, distribute information in ticker format extracted from RSS feeds and provide weather information in a visual and attractive way.

NEC Display Solutions and its player provide an exceptional platform for digital projects with a device that works 24/7.

To find out all the features offered by DENEVA.cuatro visit its website:

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NEC Display Solutions

NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH has its European headquarters in Munich, Germany, and is responsible for all business activities in EMEA, divided into five sales regions; Northern, Central and Central Eastern Europe, Western and Southern Europe / Mediterranean, Commonwealth of Independent States and Middle East / Africa. NEC Display Solutions benefits from the technological know-how and NEC Corporation technologies, and with its own research and development, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers that offers the widest product range of display solutions in the market. The product range covers LCD screens from basic to professional level, especially desktops and large-size Public Displays for Digital Signage and Retail. The Projector range offers products for all needs, from portable devices to business projectors, products for permanent operation, products for POS applications and digital cinema projectors. Bernd Eberhardt is President and CEO of NEC Display Solutions Europe.

For more information, please check our website www.nec-display-solutions.es

ICON Multimedia and Advantech will present in Innotrans 2014 fair the passenger information system DENEVA.transIT

ICON Multimedia is an expert in information and communication technologies and will present in Innotrans DENEVA.transIT an integral PIS solution together with the taiwanese worldwide known hardware producer ADVANTECH.

International Fair of transportation technology, Innotrans 2014, will take place at the Messe Berlin fairground, from 23^rd till 26^th September, giving to all the companies the opportunity to meet and stablish business relationships with worldwide companies.

ICON Multimedia and ADVANTECH will present DENEVA.transIT Passenger Information platform. It has been solidly stablished and implemented in Spain for more than 15 years being present in 100% of high speed Spanish stations, the entire network of Bus Interchanger of Madrid area, airports and underground stations. In fact, more than 650 million passengers are informed by this solution developed by ICON Multimedia.

With more than 220 transportation technology companies, Berlin is the nerve center of German transportation and, this time, Berlin will also be the perfect scenario for purchasers and sellers of transport technology. Innotrans has become one of the most important international window displays of railway technology, where a full range of vehicles are shown. At the same time Innotrans features include Railway Infrastructure, Interiors, Public Transport and Tunnel Construction among others. This will be the spot where series of discussions with international guest speakers and politic and ministerial responsible are going to take place.

The Mundo-Diario from Castilla y León gives the Innovators Awards

Each province has received an distinction, corresponding Ávila for the meter to prevent puddles of Virginia Diaz and Jorge Mongil, researchers at the Catholic University.

The wind tower that grows faster, Artepref in Burgos; cattle breeding at the University of León; fish swimming in the 2.0 stream, Palencia Campus of the University of Valladolid; microorganisms engineers of the Metabolic Engineering Group, University of Salamanca, were other awards.

The Segovia award corresponded to hydrogen as energy self-sufficiency strut from Tina Systems in Segovia; lighter and safer cars from Carbures company in Soria; the robot that plays and trains children with paralysis in Valladolid, biodiesel factory in a refrigerator at the Polytechnic School of Zamora, completed provincial awards.

Prizes began to be awarded in 2010, due to the Innovator supplement appearance. The award for best project of the year was for ‘preventive technology for track and tunnels’, Cartif; the so-called Unique Innovative Character Award, for the president of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology, Juan Jesús Cruz; the best university research project for ‘The truth machine of emotions’ by Icon Multimedia, patent from the University of Salamanca; Information Technologies to Inteco and the University of Leon for ‘visual intelligence protection for minors’; and intended for young innovative Valtueña Jara.

ICON Multimedia finalist at CEX 2014 AWARDS for good practices in management: «Internationalization»

The Centers of Excellence – CEX convene the fourth call of the “Good Practices in Management” Award, with the main goal of recognising the best practices in management done by excellent companies.

In this call, these practices award the “internationalisation” processes, taking into account activities such as: access strategies to new markets, cooperation agreements in external markets, international agreements of technology transfer, participation in international cooperation projects, people expatriation processes, participation in R&D international projects, etc.

As it happened in last calls, the following criteria have been evaluated: degree of novelty, results achieved and mainstream or possibility of application to another entities, of the management practice submitted.

THE CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE is the Excellence Promotion Centers Association, belonging placed in Spain, which goal is to unite efforts that are being made in different regions to make the innovation and the excellence in management more powerful and coordinated with the culture development of our country.

The finalist in these awards are:

FIORA
AVANZARE INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA
MICRODECO
ACCIONA
ICON MULTIMEDIA

The launching event of the finalists’ projects and the choice of the awarded project will take place the next june 17th, at Palacio de Villasuso VITORIA-GASTEIZ

Registration at:

http://www.euskalit.net/inscripciones/difusion/

DENEVA by ICON Multimedia, available in Arabic

ICON Multimedia has translated and adapted its whole comprehensive communication system DENEVA.cuatro, currently available in several languages (English and portuguese/brazilian, out of some more), into Arabic language, on its guideline of growth to new markets.

DENEVA allows to show multimedia contents on displays, PA systems or mobile devices from a central spot to thousands of points worldwide located, being daily-used, as in DS market as at PIS solutions (at airports, high speed railway stations,…) and already available in Arabic.

Arabic is the eighth more spoken language in the world, with more than 280 million of inhabitants, and it’s the only official language in 20 countries and co-official in at least another six.

DENEVA.cuatro arabic version, admits its alphabet apart from right-to-left grapheme writing script. Translation has been done in collaboration with local Arabic partners.

Furthermore, Deneva adds full support for Hijri/Muslim Calendar, that considers its year 1 as the year 622 from the Christian era, -the year of the Hegira that indicates Mahoma’s moving and the emigration of muslims from La Meca to Medina-. Nowadays, we are in year 1435AH.

ICON Multimedia was awarded, at the end of 2013, with the Halal Digital Contents Creation Homologation, those that are compatible to the Sharia or Islamic Law, becoming the first European company homologated

According to Juan Carlos Martín’s opinion, ICON Multimedia Sales Manager:

The arabic world has a enormous potential that we have always considered really interesting, and because of that we’ve been doing steady steps in order to offer our solutions in these market in the best possible conditions. Those steps have been done in chronologic order: Halal homologation in first place. The searching of a robust local partner. And finally, the translation of our CMS into arabic.This process is being already a success: several projects have started or are going to start in the next weeks.

Saudi Arabia trusts in ICON Multimedia technology

ICON Multimedia enters in Arabian market. The communication technologies company is installing its information system DENEVA on Arabian Custom offices.

In all, there will be 150 points. ICON Multimedia makes a qualitity leap in its internationalitation strategy after having achieved major successes in our country, where they their information screens for the traveller have been installed on Adif stations.

Major companies like Iberia, Otis or El Corte Inglés have also rely on the Digital Signage technology developed by ICON Multimedia.

Digital Maketing for sales rising

Juan Carlos Martin, Rafael and Enrique Hornos, founders of ICON Multimedia saw the business opportunity after having made an approach to Islamic world through some educational sessions held in Palencia about Halal rites which disclosed the Islamic laws and recomendations.

We realized that Islamic world is extremely diverse, with over 1500 potential clients which are guided by some different cultural archetypes that you have to know if you want to sell there. And it doesn’t just happen in Arabic countries: the biggest Muslim country of the world is Indonesia.

tells Rafael Hornos.